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Administrative Professionals Day
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. ~John G. Pollard
Owen's Law for Secretaries: As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something that will last until the coffee is cold. ~The Complete Murphy's Law: A Definitive Collection, Arthur Bloch, 1990
I can no other answer make but thanks,
And thanks; and ever thanks...
~William Shakespeare, Richard III
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. ~William Makepeace
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. ~Author unknown, but probably a secretary!
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. ~Doug Larson
It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. ~Author Unknown
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton, A Short History of England, 1917
How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston, Cinderella Cargoes, 1929
No one is useless in this world... who lightens the burden of it for any one else. ~Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, 1865 [This anonymous greeting-card’ized version has been making the rounds since about 2008: "No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you." –tg]
By appreciation we make excellence in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone... ~G. B. Stern, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Man Who Wrote 'Treasure Island,' 1954
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. ~James Allen
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ~Douglas Adams
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ~Joseph Addison
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. ~Sam Walton
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